Jane O'Meara Sanders

It was great growing up in Brooklyn. The neighborhood was the street. Everybody would get together after school. Somebody would sit out on a stoop and then five other people, 10 other people would come out - a game of stickball or stoopball or dodgeball - all revolved around a basketball or dodgeball. We had fun.

American Educator

Ernie Harwell

Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the street with his teenage pals. That's baseball. So is the husky voice of a doomed Lou Gehrig saying, 'I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.

American Celebrity

Darell Hammond

Toddlers need to get off the soccer field and onto the playground. Children need to get out of the gym and into neighborhood stickball games. We need to give kids room to create their own rules, set their own terms, and move their bodies in their own ways.

American Businessman

Eddie Alvarez

Where most kids play stickball and hockey, I'd walk down the streets with two sets of boxing gloves and knock on my friend's door and see if he wanted to box. There were boxing gyms on every corner.

American Athlete

Jerry Doyle

Brooklyn, when I was growing up, was awesome. It was stoopball and stickball - a lot of kids... the baby boom generation were all in the area. It was just a really great place.

American Actor

Bob Cousy

We hung out on the streets, played stickball, and did all of the things that other kids did.

Stickball originated in urban areas where kids didn't have access to proper baseball fields.

Urban Origins

Stickball is often played with improvised objects, symbolizing resourcefulness and adaptability.

Improvised Play

Stickball is not just a game; it fosters community and brings neighborhoods together.